01.18.2023 Sports Shelter Island cheerleading coach sees girls empowered by sport Like many girls, when Adrianne Pitch was in elementary school, she looked up to her big sister Danielle for clues for just about everything. One of those times was...
12.05.2021 Sports It’s not just pom poms and being cute: Island cheerleaders are practicing a sport When Michelle Corbett was a high school girl, Shelter Island Class of 1993, she decided to join the cheerleading team. “I was a dancer, an actor, a performer,” she...
06.06.2017 Education What’s in name? Common Core is ‘rebranded’ Since its inception in 2010, the Common Core Standards Initiative has met with scrutiny and often disdain from parents and educators across the country. The system of standardized tests...
01.11.2016 Education Skugg skeptical about fed educational intervention The closer you are to students will determine your ability to make the best decisions about their education. That’s the way Superintendent Leonard Skuggevik sees it and why he’s...
05.15.2014 Editorial Editorial: A proper ending to a silly debate Is cheerleading a sport? That debate has raged in the greater sports community for decades.